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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. FileMaker vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.claris.com/­filemakercloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016198320082019
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (GQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
PHP.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesusing Google App Engineno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replication using Paxosyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBFileMakerGoogle Cloud DatastoreWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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